Steam-generating plant



H. W. BELL. STEAM GENERATING PLANT.'l APPLICATION FILED APR. 1.4919.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 2li, i922..

HARVEY W. BELL, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

STEAM-GENERATING PLANT.

Application filed April 7, 1919. Serial No. 288,068.

To all whom it may concern:

Be .it known that I, HARVEY W. BELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Yonkers, W'estchester County, and State 5 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Generating Plants, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof. My invention relates to improvements in heat generating plants and its object is to provide a simple and efficient system for generating steam mechanically. More specifically its object is to provide a system for utilizing both the heat and the kinetic energy developed by an internal combustion engine. A still further object is to provide a combined mechanical steam generating and translating system.

These and other objects will appear in the following specification in which the invention will be described and the novel features thereof set forth in appended claims.

rlhe drawing is a diagrammatic representation of a combined steam generating and motor system which is made according to and embodies my invention, the exhaust manifold of the motor being broken away to show the heat exchanger' therein and the mechanical heat generator being sho-wn in section. ln the drawing 10 designates an internal combustion engine and 11 its shaft. 12 is the engine exhaust pipe which leads from a jacketed manifold 13. The cylinders of the engine are water-jacketed and the intake to the cylinder jacket is shown at 14 and its outlet at 15. 16 is a fuel tank from which is a pipe 17 which leads to the can burettor shown in detached view at 18. i part of this fuel pipe is shown coiled around `the exhaust pipe 12 at 19.

2O is a water tank with which the cylinder` jacket intake and outlet pipes 14 and 15 are connected, and 21 a discharge pipe therefrom. A pump 22 connected to be driven from the engine 10 by mechanism not shown is arranged to force water from the tank 2O through a check valve 23 into a mechanical heat generator 30. This is preferably a mechanism like that disclosed in my co pending application for patent Serial No. 27 9,923, iiled February 28, 1919. This comprises a casing 31 within which are disks 32 on the engine shaft 11, between which disks are stati led into o-nary annular plates 33. Fluid is the casing at 34 and discharged therefrom at 35. A pipe 36 leads from this discharge to the exhaust manifold 13. 37 is a pipe leading from the exhaust manifold through a manually controlled valve 38 to a steam motor 40. 39 is a steam dome connected with pipe 37.

.The exhaust from the steam motor is carried by a pipe 41 to the upper part of a radiator or condensor 42. Back of this is a fan 43 connected to be driven by the engine 10.

A pipe 44 leads from the lower part of the condensor to an injector 45, with which the engine exhaust pipe 12 is also connected, and a pipe 46 connects the injector with the water tank 20. A baffle plate 24 is in the water tank above which is the exhaust stack 25.

50 is an automatic regulator for controllingthe supply of fluid to the heater 30. It

end of hollow expansion tube 55. 56 is a pipe from the lcasing 31 of the heateriat the desired water level therein which communicates with the expansion tube 55.

an adjustable pressure valve connected by a pipe 61 with the pipe 36. This is connected by a rod 62 with a throttle valve 63 betwe en the Carburettor 13 and the intake manifold 64 of the engine 10.

The operation of this apparatus is as fol lows: T he engine 10 is operated in the usual and its operation generates heat in the cylinders some of which is absorbed in the water acket and heats the water in the tank 2O with which the cylinder jacket is connected by a thermal syphon through the pipes 14 and 15. Some of the heat is abn sorbed in the exhaust manifold by the fluid which enters by pipe 36 and leaves by pipe 37, and some of the heat remains in the exn haust gases which pass through pipe 12,

through the injector 45 and by pipe 46 into tank 20 into which they are deflected downwardly by the battle plate 24 and further heat the water in the tank before they pass out through The h the stack 25. eat of the exhaust pipe l2 may be income a cooling jacket, a mechanical heat genera tor directly operated by said engine, means :tor successively passing a fluid through the jacket and generator in desired sequence to cumulatively utilize the heat of both the mechanical heat generator and the internal combustion engine to produce a pressure fluid and a fluid pressure motor connected to be directly operated by said pressure fluid.

8. An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat produced by the combustion engine and by said generator.

9. An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat produced by the combustion engine and by said generator and manual means for controlling said translating device.

lO. An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat produced by the combustion engine and by said generator and means automatically actuated by the generated heat tor controlling the speed ol the engine.

l1. l n internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat produced by the combustion engine and by said. generator, manual means for controlling said translating device and means automatically actuated by the generated heat tor controlling the speed ot the engine.

l2. in internal combustion engine, a niechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, means i'or Vutilizing the heat of combustion and said generator for heating a fluid to produce pressure, and a lluid pressure motor arranged to be actuated by said heated lluid.

i3. An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the eneine, means for utilizing the heat ot combustion and said generator ior heating a fluid to produce pressure, a fluid pressure motor, liuid connections between the engine, generator and motor, and a manually actuated control valve for the ,motor in said connections.,

ll= An internal combustion engine, a meehanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, means for utilizing the heat of combustion and said generator for heating a fluid to produce pressure, a liuid pressure motor, a. condenser, fluid connections from the engine and generator to the motor and other fluid connections including the condenser from the motor to the engine and generator.

An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, means for utilizing the heat or combustion and said generator for heating a fluid to produce pressure, a fluid pressure motor, a condenser, fluid connections rom the engine and generator to the motor and a manually actuated control valve for the motor in said connections.

16. An internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator connected to be driven by the engine, means for utilizing the heat et combustion and said generator tor heating a iiuid to produce pressure, a iuid pressure, a condenser, fluid connections from the engine and generator to the motor, a manually actuated control valve for i the motor an automatically actuated control valve tor the engine in said connections.

17. fin internal combustion engine having a cooling system, a mechanical heat generator driven by said engine, a 'fluid pressure motor, connections Jfor supplying fluid heated by the cooling system ot the in-` ternal roinbustion engine and the mechanical heat generator to said liuid pressure motor and connections from the fluid pressure motor for returning the exhaust fluid therefrom bach to taire up heat from the cooling system ot the internal combustion engine.

18. in internal combustion engine, a mechanical heat generator driven thereby, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat produced by the combustion engine and by said generator and means automatically actuated by the generated heat for controling the power output ot the engine.

i9. in internal combustion engine, a inechanical heat generator driven thereby, a translating device arranged to utilize the heat proiiluced by the combustion engine and by said generator, manual means for controlling the translating device and means 'lor automatically governing the power output ot the internal combustion engine in accordance with the utilization o'l the generated heat by the translating device.

iin Witness ivhereot, have hereunto set my this 5th day ot April, 1919.

HARVEY W, BELL, 

